Brimstone Butterfly. Underside (aberration).
Pl. 27.
Common Blue. At rest.
Although most certainly not so common or so generally distributed as in former times, the butterfly still occurs in the larger oak woods in most of the midland, western, and southern counties of England, but is, perhaps, most frequent in Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. In Wales it is found in Monmouthshire. It has not been recorded from Scotland, and only doubtfully from Ireland.
In Central Europe it is often abundant, and its range extends eastward into Amurland, Central and Western China.
Now follow seventeen butterflies of the sub-family Nymphalinæ.